Missouri Juvenile Court Records, 1994 (ICPSR 6884)

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the
volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1994 by courts having
jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and
dependency cases) in Missouri. Inaugurated in 1975 and mandated in
1980, the Missouri Division of Youth Services collects and
disseminates delinquency statistics about each case disposed during
the previous calendar year. The data include a record of each case
processed formally with petition and informally withou... (more info)

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the
volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1994 by courts having
jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and
dependency cases) in Missouri. Inaugurated in 1975 and mandated in
1980, the Missouri Division of Youth Services collects and
disseminates delinquency statistics about each case disposed during
the previous calendar year. The data include a record of each case
processed formally with petition and informally without petition, and
contain an individual record on each delinquency, status offense,
dependency, and special proceeding case disposed.

Methodology

Sample:
A census of petitioned and nonpetitioned court case
records.

Data Source:

records of the Missouri Division of Youth Services.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1997-11-13

Version History:

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.